These are new photos of Nicole Kidman in Paris yesterday. Is there an age cut-off for when we stop doing Bump Watch on women? Nicole is 45 years old – isn’t it possible that she’s merely clutching her abdomen because she’s hungry, or because she’s full, or because she doesn’t like her outfit or something? At this point, can’t we stop with the “OMG, Nicole is trying to tell us something!” headlines? Sorry, that was just bothering me.
Anyway, I do kind of like Nicole’s outfit. It’s a nice mixture of styles and vibes – great purse, nice pants, too-frilly shirt, and she’s using a giant hair clip, just like me! I would wear this whole outfit, only exchanging the ruffled blouse for a something crisper. I love the cardigan in particular, and I like that I wasn’t immediately assaulted by Nicole’s lips.
In other Kidman news, she’s been making headlines recently because she’s been wheeling and dealing in international real estate. Nicole just picked up her second apartment in Sydney – she bought the apartment adjacent to the penthouse she already owned in a building by the Sydney Harbor. According to The Mail, Nicole and Keith “are consolidating the two by knocking down an interior wall and expanding one of the kitchens. And as well a purchasing the property next door, the actress has also splashed out $2.68 million on a 19th floor apartment, which she will use as her home office.” You can see photos of her penthouse here – it’s really beautiful.
And just last week, Nicole unloaded one of her Manhattan properties for $16 million. Nicole had owned a West Village apartment for nine years – the place only had three bedrooms, which probably made it much too small for Nicole and her family. There’s Keith, their two girls, plus an assortment of nannies and assistants and such. They would obviously need a bigger place. You know what struck me? Nicole owned two apartments in New York… and she didn’t lend out either of them to Tom Cruise OR Katie Holmes when Tom and Katie were going through their thing. Which just proves to me that Nicole seriously did NOT want to get involved.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I think she’s trying to AVOID telling us something – “Crap. The bottom button of my blouse is missing!”
Lol, and it could even be true
Ha-that’s what I thought, too!
CB thanks for the real estate porn 😉
That view…wow!
Nicole owned two apartments in New York… and she didn’t lend out either of them to Tom Cruise OR Katie Holmes when Tom and Katie were going through their thing.
Uh, both Tom and Katie can afford their own places. Why in the world would they stay in Nicole’s apartment? That comment just seemed like a weird way to try to connect Nicole to Tom& Katie.
Robert Pattinson can afford to stay anywhere he wants too, but Reese Witherspoon still offered him her Ojai ranch. It really isn’t that weird.
Yes, but Reese and Rob are friends.
Tom& Nicole are exes who reportedly had a bitter divorce. Katie and Nicole are not friends. Just thought it would be akward for either of them to stay in Nicole’s place, but whatever. It’s no big deal 🙂
Gotta agree with Miss T – Tom dumped her just shy of the 10 year mark and brainwashed her children against her. Not exactly an amicable split, can’t imagine why anyone would expect her to do anything for Tom, or his next ex-wife.
I saw a video on youtube yesterday, the 2011 Hollywood Reporter inteview with best actresses. It some how came up having kids and working and she said something about when she had her first kids she was young and she wasn’t very happy so making movies was her escape from her life. And now that her life is really good, it takes a lot to take her away from her family. It made me think that all those years she and Tom looked so solid that she was actually miserable. I not sure she’d offer Tom much.
I know she’s said nice things about Tom in interviews but this was sort of an ungaurded moment talking with the other women.
I like it. She looks comfortable and happy. I like that she can move the lower half of her face too.
I think she’s just gassy and holding her tummy in hopes she doesn’t fart in front of the photogs..
Normal and age appropriate… but the stomach grasping is strange. Maybe it was windy…
I think she needs some friendly bacteria 😀
whoever decorated that penthouse in Sydney was HIGHLY OVERPAID – that’s all i got on this one. OH – and that fishbowl needs tending. just sayin’.
oh, i do hope she & Keith have a lil’ cherry-topped boy in their future!
happy-happy, joy-joy!!! 😀
Maybe she had gas or cramps. Who knows? She looks good, I’m glad she’s happy, and I’m equally glad she stayed above the TomKat divorce fray.
Her stomach holding image says to me:
Oh God, Oh God, Oh God please don’t ask me anything about TomKat or even TommyGirl himself. My confidentiality agreement says I can’t anyway, and after all I did sell my soul for my career and a life free of all things CO$, even giving up my two oldest children. I can’t breach that now and let the world know what a horrible life it is to be a Beard of the Tiny Little Narcissist Tyrant and all things cultish. I mean, money is everything and all, how would I be able to buy and sell more of my gizzillion dollars worth of assets if I cleared my conscious and tell the real story. No, no, no I just can’t do that. What would people think of that type of honor and courage coming out of Hollywood? Forget it!
That is my interpretation anyway.
She sold her soul? She got dumped in the harshed way imaginable and her kids were brainwashed to cut off contact with her. I think she’s bloody amazing for having managed to rebuild a life after that.
I am sorry Anne but I don’t agree. I mean I am glad she seems to have a life now with KU and the new kids, but I can absolutely, 100%, no qualms about it, guarantee that no man alive or “religion” would have come between me and my kids. The day she let him have her older two kids to raise in that cult by signing a confidentiality agreement agreeing to keep her mouth shut was selling her soul IMO. There is no amount of money or fame that you could pay me to forsake my kids…Nicole did.
Are you fully informed about scientology? Maybe you can explain what you would have done? HOW would you have fought? Because ‘I would not have let that happen’ sounds kind of naive about how a cult works.
They signed a joint custody agreement. Cruise kept residency, since he wasn’t just setting up a new household. Nicole must have been desperately sad at the time, she’d just had a miscarriage and was dumped out of the blue – can you imagine how easy it must have been for Tom to be the fun parent, thinking about what he’s doing with Suri right now? And the kids were old enough for the scientology influence to be strong and insidious – slowly poisoned against their mother until they just ‘never had time to see her anymore’.
If she spoke out against Co$ in any way, she would only alienate them further. She is doing what cult experts recommend (and Katie Holmes’ parents did, in fact) which is to try to be a neutral party so that she can keep open a line of contact. That way if they ever want out, she can be there to reach them a hand. But as long as they, under heavy cult influence, just don’t want to see her, there is not a damn thing she can do about it.
Katie Holmes is standing in a much, MUCH stronger position, because the media is watching and she has good people at her back. But back then? Nobody was watching.
Anne… Do you have children? If so have you ever had to make any tough life decisions for yourself and them? I have.
Religon/Cult aside…
I don’t know you and you don’t know me, ah what did you call me, naive, right, well I am not naive. I have 3 kids and I would walk through fire, chew glass, spit nails, WHATEVER IT TOOK for them to be a part of my life. Maybe you are the naive one to think for one moment that a Mom would do any of THAT for their kid(s) rather then have them taken away and keep her mouth shut about the whole thing…which led to your conclusion that “But as long as they, under heavy cult influence, just don’t want to see her”. Every action or inaction we take in our life has a consequence … giving your kids up to a cult when you yourself get out included. Nicole made a choice I would never have made. I don’t admire her for it.
I am not a “can’t do a damn thing about it” person so I’d don’t and never could get where you or Nicole are coming from.
Yes yes, you would have fought, you would never have let this happen.
HOW would you have fought what she was facing? WHAT would you have done to make sure you didn’t lose the kids under those circumstances? Given that their entire belief system, which they had been raised with, now declared her evil and that associating with her meant they were facing reprecussions for associating with somebody they believed to be ‘spiritually’ a bad influence on their own ‘spiritual’ path?
I’m sure you’re a wonderful mother and that it’s easier to believe that she must not have been trying hard enough. But I’d like some details of how you would have ensured a different outcome, please.
I agree with you completely. I’m a mother and I would never let anything, not even a powerful and scary cult separate me from my kids, no matter how intimidated I felt. And I’ve never met à mother who would let her children go like Nicole must have done. So I’m convinced she valued her career and/or image over her children. Furthermore I don’t believe that if her adopted children had truly bonded with Nicole as their mother they would have chosen not to live with her after the divorce. The agreement was for joint custody after all. According to some insiders Nicole was never really interested in being à real mother to B and C, Tom did all the parenting. So i’m so tired of all the “poor Nicole” BS. She could have saved those kids from CoS but she was too narcisstic to care.
I agree with you completely. I’m a mother and I would never let anything, not even a powerful and scary cult separate me from my kids, no matter how intimidated I felt. And I’ve never met à mother who would let her children go like Nicole must have done. So I’m convinced she valued her career and/or image over her children. Furthermore I don’t believe that if her adopted children had truly bonded with Nicole as their mother they would have chosen not to live with her after the divorce. According to some insiders Nicole was never really interested in being à real mother to B and C, Tom did all the parenting. So i’m so tired of all the “poor Nicole” BS. She could have saved those kids from CoS but she was too narcisstic to care.
I agree with you completely. I’m a mother and I would never let anything, not even a powerful and scary cult separate me from my kids, no matter how intimidated I felt. And I’ve never met à mother who would. I’m convinced Nic valued her career over her children. Furthermore I don’t believe that if her adopted children had truly bonded with N as their mother they would have chosen not to live with her after the divorce. According to some insiders N was never really a mother to B and C, Tom did all the parenting. So i’m so tired of all the “poor Nicole” BS. She could have saved those kids from CoS but she was too narcisstic to care.
Sorry didnt mean to post 3 times. New at this.
Your interpretation is spot on chatcat. Kidman is cunning and has been lying to the public for years.
I really like her outfit. And her apt. Jelly.
Could have a Thursday Turkey in there to go with her Sunday Roast.
I love her purse.
Texted this picture to my mom last night “i love this outfit.” i would wear this work!
I like the outfit; I would wear it to work.
That apartment has fantastic views.
She looks good!
There’s a button missing from her shirt. She’s 45 so the odds of her getting pregnant are preeeeeetty slim. Plus their last baby was via a surrogate.
I LOVE her Sydney condo. She’s a smart cookie to expand and enlarge the small kitchen. I bet she ends up with incredible views on both sides of the renovated unit.
I really like Nicole. I wish she hadn’t messed with her face to the extent to which she has.
oh come on, it’s not because of her age but everyone knows she can’t have children the normal way. She’s just trying to make headlines for other things beside the Tom and Katie struggles.
Purse envy!!! Can anyone identify or is it out of the stratosphere $$$? Thanks.